Young People in Humanitarian-Peacebuilding Consultant

This consultancy supports UNICEF's adolescent and youth programming across humanitarian action, peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction, and resilience in crisis-affected contexts. The role provides technical assistance, capacity strengthening, inter-agency coordination, and knowledge management to advance youth participation and leadership in humanitarian and peacebuilding efforts.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical assistance and capacity strengthening to UNICEF country and regional offices, youth-led organizations and partners to operationalize the IASC Youth Guidelines and Young Humanitarians Handbook, advance the Youth, Peace and Security agenda, and strengthen young people’s skills, leadership and meaningful participation across humanitarian action, peacebuilding, social cohesion, disaster risk reduction and resilience.
• Support UNICEF’s leadership and engagement with the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action, and the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security through inter-agency coordination and partnership.
• Lead knowledge management, research and reporting activities including annual, donor, inter-agency and high-level UN reporting on UNICEF’s work with adolescents and youth across humanitarian action, peacebuilding and resilience.
• Develop research, case studies, analysis and other knowledge products that document results and lessons, and inform programming, learning and advocacy.
• Manage and update digital content around young people on humanitarian, peace and resilience through Drupal for UNICEF’s Youth-Led Action and Adolescent Kit websites, supporting the development of the PROSPECTS website.
• Support PROSPECTS countries in implementing the IASC Youth Guidelines, National Action Plans on Youth, Peace and Security, and Peacebuilding Fund-supported programmes.
• Strengthen cross-country and regional learning through trainings, webinars and learning dialogues.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree – Master’s degree - PhD in International relations, peace and conflict studies, community development, humanitarian emergencies; DRR; youth development.
• Ten or more years of relevant professional experience in adolescent and youth programming across humanitarian action, peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction (DRR), resilience and/or fragile and conflict-affected contexts is required.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance and capacity strengthening, including developing or delivering trainings, workshops and other learning initiatives, is required.
• Demonstrated experience in inter-agency coordination and partnerships, particularly with the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action and the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security, is required.
• Demonstrated research and analytical expertise, including experience developing high-level and high-quality donor, institutional and/or UN reports, including the analysis and synthesis of country and programme results, evidence and lessons learned, is required.
• Demonstrated experience in knowledge management and the development and dissemination of digital content and knowledge products for internal and external audiences is required.
• Comprehensive knowledge of policies, frameworks and guidance related to adolescents and youth across humanitarian action, peacebuilding and DRR, including the IASC Youth Guidelines, Young Humanitarians Handbook, Youth, Peace and Security agenda, UNICEF Core Commitments for Children (CCCs), and Sendai Framework for DRR.
• Strong knowledge of current research and evidence on young people’s meaningful participation and leadership across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, including the interlinkages between humanitarian action, peacebuilding, social cohesion, DRR, climate resilience and fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
• Advanced research and analytical skills, including research on and with young people, and the ability to analyze and synthesize evidence into high-quality UN and donor reports, technical guidance, policy and programme recommendations, and other knowledge products.
• Strong facilitation and capacity-strengthening skills, including the ability to contextualize global frameworks and guidance and translate them into practical tools, trainings and learning approaches for country and regional contexts.
• Strong digital skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office, Drupal, Zoom and other relevant knowledge management, collaboration and communication platforms.
• Fluency in English is required.
• A master’s degree in a relevant field is required. A PhD is highly desirable, particularly given the assignment's advanced research and analysis requirements.

Skills

• Adolescents and Youth Programming
• Humanitarian Action
• Peacebuilding Processes
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Resilience Programming
• Capacity Strengthening
• Training Development
• Workshop Facilitation
• Inter-agency Coordination
• Partnership Management
• Research and Analysis
• Donor Reporting
• Knowledge Management
• Digital Content Creation
• Policy Analysis
• IASC Youth Guidelines
• Youth, Peace and Security agenda
• UNICEF Core Commitments
• Sendai Framework for DRR
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Drupal
• Zoom

Languages

English